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People
| Definition | Name |
|---|---|
| Created first written set of laws (Hammurabi's Code); from Babylon | Hammurabi |
| Father of the Jews (Hebrews) | Abraham |
| Led the Israelites out of Egypt- took the 10 commandments to Mount Sinai | Moses |
| Persian prophet; founder of Zoroastrianism; believed life was an ongoing struggle between good and evil | Zoroaster |
| Founder of Buddhism; known as Buddha or "the enlightened one" | Siddhartha Gautama |
| Mauryan emperor of India; helped spread Buddhism | Asoka |
| From China; founder of philosophy Confucianism; beilieved in filial piety; respect for elders | Confucius |
| AKA: Lao Tzu - From China; founder of the philosophy Taoism; wrote the Tao Te Jing | Laozi |
| Legalist emperor who unified China, constructed the Great Wall to keep out northern invaders. | Qin Shi Hunag Di |
| Blind Greek Poet - wrote two great epic poems about heroes and wars - The Iliad and The Odyssey | Homer |
| Greek Philosopher - encouraged people to question their own beliefs and ideas; teacher to Plato | Socrates |
| Greek philosopher - emphasized the importance of reason - establishes a school of thought, The academy - wrote the book The Republic; teacher to Aristotle | Plato |
| Greek Philosopher - developed ideas about the best kind of gov. - teaches Alexander the Great | Aristotle |
| Father of history - wrote about Persian wars | Herodotus |
| Greek historian who wrote the history of the Pelopennesian wars | Thucydides |
| Mathematician - Pythagorean Theorem -> a2+b2=c2 | Pythagoras |
| Greek scientist and mathematician: invented the lever and the pulley | Archimedes |
| "Father of Medicine" - The Hippocratic oath is named after him | Hippocrates |
| Father of geometry | Euclid |
| Greek playwright: wrote tragedies | Aeschylus |
| Greek playwright: wrote Oedipus and Antigone | Sophocles |
| Greek sculptor: Sculpted statue of Athena in the Parthenon | Phidias |
| Leader of Athens during the Golden Age; expanded democracy | Pericles |
| expanded his empire from Greece to India and south to Egypt | Alexander the Great |
| King of Maceodnia, father of Alexander the Great, he conquered Greece and planned to invade Persia before his death | Phillip II |
| Greek tyrant who created Athens first code of law: very harsh | Draco |
| Greek tyrant who gave power to more citizens; made working in government a paying job | Solon |
| leader of Persia at Battle of Thermopylae. | Xerxes |
| Greek god of thunder: king of Gods | Zeus |
| Greek goddess of marriage: married to Zeus | Hera |
| Greek goddess of love and beauty | Aphrodite |
| Greek goddess of the hunt | Artemis |
| Greek goddess of wisdom | Athena |
| Roman astronomer and mathematician who said the Earth is the center of the universe | Ptolemy |
| Roman poet who wrote the Aeneid | Virgil |
| Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps mouuntains with elephants during the 2nd Punic War against Rome | Hannibal |
| Roman general, senator and dictator: killed in March 44 BCE by Roman Senate | Julius Caesar |
| three political/military leaders of Roman Republic - made of Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus | First triumvirate |
| AKA. Octavian; became first emperor of Rome | Augustus Ceasar |
| Founder of Christianity; believed to be the Messiah or savior | Jesus |
| Apostle who spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire | Paul |
| Emperor who divided the Roman Empire into East and West | Dioceltian |
| Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire; Moved capital from Rome to Byzantium (Constintanople); converted to Christianity and made it legal with the Edict of Milan in 330 CE | Constantine |
| He strengthened the Byzantine Empire; had Hagia Sophia built; brought the Eastern Empire to its most powerful point. | Justinian |
| Removed the Mongols from Russia (First Czar) | Ivan the Great |
| Christian monk who created the Cyrillic alphabet to help Russians read the bible | St. Cyril |
| Founder of Islam; Known as the last prophet | Muhammed |
| Arabic word for god | Allah |
| Greatest ruler of the kingdom of Mali; as a Muslim he made the Hajj to Mecca | Mansa Musa |
| Norman who became King of England with victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 | William the conqueror |
| His legal reforms became the foundation of English Common Law | King Henry II |
| Was a hated King of England, lost lands to France, forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 | King John |
| Elected by French nobles in 987 to be king after the last Cafolingian king died, strengthened the monarchs power in France. | Hugh Capet |
| Her leadership became a unifying force in France during the Hundred Years War | Joan of Arc |
| United Spain when they marries, expelled the Muslim Moors during the Reconquista | Ferdinand and Isabelle |
| Gave a speech where he calls for a Crusade to free the Holy Land from the muslims | Pope Urban II |
| Muslim sultan- Recaptured Jerusalem in 1187 from the Chrisitans in the crusades. | Saladin |
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